Acoustic Waves in Ocean Sediments
Acoustic Waves in Ocean Sediments
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DOI:
10.1190/1.1440741
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发表时间:
1977-06
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
R. Stoll
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作者:
R. Stoll
An acoustic model for unconsolidated sediments is used to study velocity, attenuation, and reflection in ocean sediments. The model predicts attenuation and wave velocity on the basis of physical parameters such as porosity, grain size, permeability, and effective stress. Two mechanisms for energy loss are included in the model; one accounts for intergranular losses in the skeletal frame and the other for viscous losses in the porewater as it moves relative to the frame. As a result, in certain sediments such as sands and silts, attenuation is found to vary in a manner quite different from the usual dependency on the first power of frequency that is almost universally assumed. Furthermore, the amplitudes of reflected and refracted waves at boundaries between water and sediment or between sediment layers become frequency dependent. In the immediate vicinity of such boundaries, a significant amount of energy may be lost owing to the generation of a second kind of dilatational wave with extremely high attenu...